As a new user, it took me awhile to realize that there's just not a lot of posting that goes on here (no offense).

On almost every other forum I visit, all the threads you see on the first page of a section go back a day or two, or maybe a week if it's been slow. On this forum, you get to the bottom of the first page and you might be back in 2007 (see the JLPT section). Again, it takes awhile to notice this -- it's unusual, and I think that's why you see mostly new users doing it. For me, I was lucky in that I read a post in which somebody else got yelled at for "necroposting," I then realized what the problem was, and so I learned the easy way.

What's the best solution? Politely point out to the poster the situation. After all, if they're new, it's good to be gentle so that they will continue to return and become a valued member of the forum. And if the thread happens to revive because of it, so be it.

Meanwhile, I'm rather glad it happened here, as I probably wouldn't have learned about the penis festival!